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WENDLAND, J.C.
        Botanische Beobachtungen nebst einigen neuen Gattungen und Arten.
      Hannover, Hahn, 1798. Small-folio. pp. (4), 58, (2), with 4 handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary boards. Stafleu & Cowan 17.131. Johann Christoph Wendland (1755-1828) was chief gardener at Herrenhausen (Hannover), one of the most celebrated baroque gardens in Germany. 'Bey dem ansehnlichen und schönen Vorrathe ausländische Pflanzen in dem heisigen Königl. Churfürstlichen Berggarten, unter welchen einige Gattungen vorzüglich reich sind, hatte ich in 15 Jahren viel Gelegenheit, manche Gattungen und Art zu beobachten' (From the Introduction). Title-page with the signature of R.A. Hedwig, the son of Johannes Hedwig, and a small library stamp.

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MIDDLETON, John
        View of the Agriculture of Middlesex: with Observations on the Means of its Improvement, and Several Essays on Agriculture in General Drawn up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture Accompanied by the Remarks of Several Respectable Gentlemen and Farmers
      Two hand-colored folding engraved maps & one folding printed table. xvii pp., 1 leaf of errata, 597 pp. 8vo, cont. speckled calf, red morocco lettering piece on spine. London: Printed by B. Macmillan for G. Nicol et al., 1798. First edition and rather scarce. Middleton (1751-1833), land surveyor and agriculturalist, was a member of the London Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. The present work has long been considered to be the best of all of the Board of Agriculture's surveys of the English counties (see ODNB). Middleton was a prolific writer on rural matters and was inspired by a wish to improve the lot of his fellow countrymen. Fine copy. .

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LA HARPE, M. de.
        Abrégé de l'Histoire Générale des Voyages, contenant ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable, de plus utile & de mieux avéré dans les pays où les voyageurs ont pénétré; les moeurs des habitants, la religion, les usages, arts & sciences, commerce, manufactures; enrichie de cartes géographiques et de figures.
      Paris: Hôtel de Thou, 1780; Paris: Moutardier, 1798 - an VIII. - Première édition; 27 volumes in-8 et un atlas in-4; environ 450 à 500 pp. par volume; 97 planches hors texte dont 22 dépliantes pour les volumes de texte, et 74 cartes généralement dépliantes (sur 75) pour l'atlas -relié sans page de titre-, la plupart dessinées par Bellin. Reliure d'époque en basane marbrée glacée, dos à nerfs orné, tranches rouges, avec une très légère différence de fers pour les six derniers volumes (suppléments) et l'atlas. Très bel exemplaire dans un état de fraîcheur intérieure et extérieure exceptionnel, à l'exception de quelques épidermures et de deux petites galeries de vers sur les plats de l'atlas. Prévu initialement en 21 volumes par La Harpe et conçu alors comme un abrégé refondu et mis en ordre de la monumentale Histoire des Voyages de Prévost, l'ouvrage fut d'abord augmenté en 1786 de deux volumes relatant le troisième voyage de Cook, puis progressivement augmenté par Victor Comeiras de l'an VIII (1800) jusqu'à l'an XIII (1804). Notre ensemble de 27 volumes constitue un ensemble peu courant malgré l'absence des cinq derniers tomes du supplément de Comeiras. Boucher de la Richarderie, I, 98: "Dans cet abrégé, qui, dès l'origine, a mérité les suffrages universels? La Harpe a rétabli l'ordre qui manquait dans l'original? Dans la partie descriptive, il a classé les articles généraux de manière à éviter la confusion; et il a jeté dans son ouvrage une variété très piquante, en faisant presque toujours succéder la narration des aventures à la description des lieux?". Une table détaillée couvrant les 21 volumes du projet initial se trouve en tête du premier volume. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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ILLIGER, J.K.W.
        Verzeichniss der Käfer Preussens. Entworfen von Johann Gottlieb Kugelann, Apotheker in Osterode. Ausgearbeitet von Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger. Mit einer Vorrede des Professors und Pagenhofmeisters Hellwig in Braunschweig und dem angehängten Versuche einer natürlichen Ordnungs- und Gattungs- Folge der Insekten.
      Halle, J. Gebauer, 1798. 8vo (202 x 120mm). pp. xlii, (2), 510, (2) with 1 folded table. Later half calf, gilt lettered spine. A rare work on the coleoptera of Prussia. Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775-1831) was professor and director of the zoological museum in Berlin from its formation in 1810 until his death.//Horn-Schenkling II, 11172.

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SOMERVILLE (Thomas):
        The History of Great Britain during the Reign of Queen Anne With a Dissertation concerning the Danger of the Protestant Succession; And an Appendix, containing Original Papers
      London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies..., 1798. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 4to, pp. iv, [vi] - xvii [xviii Errata], 674 [675 - 676 adverts], recently recased in quarter calf, morocco label, marbled boards; title-page soiled and creased, ex-library with handwritten library ownership on first page of text. The erratic pagination is a printing error. Thomas Somerville (1741 - 1830) began collecting materials for his historical works in 1782, and this volume was preceded by his History of Political Transactions and of Parties from the Restoration of King Charles II to the Death of King William III (1792). A native of Hawick, Roxburghshire, he received a honorary D. D. from St. Andrews in 1793 and was also elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was also the author of My Own Life and Times, first published in 1861, and an invaluable guide to intellectual and literary life in Edinburgh in the latter part of the 18th century. Despite the high quality of both the research and the writing, as well as favourable and encouraing comments and reviews, this volume, as well as its predecessor, sold badly. More recent scholarship, such as that by Richard B. Sher, has shown appreciation for Somerville's achievements.

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MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791
        [K366, 489]. Idomeneo, R? di Creta, Opera seria in tre Atti... Idomeneus K?nig von Creta, eine ernsthafte Oper in drey Aufz?gen... Pr. [...] Fr. [Piano-vocal score]
      Bonn: Simrock [PN] 51. [1798]. Oblong folio. Half dark tan leather with marbled boards, diamond-shaped decorative black leather label titled in gilt to upper, black leather title label gilt to spine. 1f. (title), [i] (cast list, table of contents, credits of German translation to "Herrn v. Apell... Intendanten des Hoftheaters zu Cassel," and advertisement), 2-183, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved. Watermark: "G.F." Corrections and additions in pencil: Flag added to note to p. 90; dashes marking entrances of Ilia to p. 121-22; character identifications to p. 124: first "Idamante," then crossed out and replaced with "Electra" [!Elettra] all in the same hand; identifications to p. 127: "Ilia," "Idamante," "Electra," in two different hands; tenuto [?] dash to p. 128, breath mark to p. 129; vocal parts added to p. 145, mm. 2-3, to match parallel passage on p. 147; correction to pitch to p. 164; accents and alterations to vocal part, p. 169.Boards slightly worn, rubbed and bumped; spine chipped at head and tail and with some loss. Slightly soiled and foxed; occasional staining; impression evidences minor wear to plates. . Published two years after the first edition. K?chel 6 p. 372. Hirsch IV, 39 (another issue, with price "9 fl." and catalogue to final page). RISM M4192 (not distinguishing between issues). In the present edition the duet "Spiegarti non poss'io" (K489), composed for the 1786 performance in Vienna, replaces the original 1781 duet "S'io non moro" in act 3. The German text is by David August von Apell (1754-1832).

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Missiessy, Edouard Burges
        Installation des Vaisseaux
      Paris, An VI. (1798). b/w folding plates. 4to. xii, 403, (1) pp. Complete specifications and instructions for building, equipping and sailing a 74 gun frigate, written at the direction of the Minister of the Marine to get the French Navy up to snuff. Interestingly it also contains more than 200 pages of highly specific manning instructions, - quarter and station bills - for sailing and fighting a vessel of this class. Polak 1322 calls for 9 plates; there are 8 folding plates here, numbered 1-8. OCLC, which also calls for 9 plates, locates only 2 copies. Apparently lacking lacking one plate, though Lefkowicz cites a copy with eight plates. Light water stain on lower edges of pages, but still a very nice copy, with eight folding engraved plates. Bound in original full calf with gilt spine decorations. All edges gilt.

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MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791
        [K374c (352), 315d (264), 300f (353), 455, 299a (354), Anh. C26.02 (Anh. 285), 573, 613, 300e (265), 416e (398), 189a (179), 500]. Douze Themes varies pour le pianoforte
      Leipsic Breitkopf & Härtel [without PN] [1798]. Oblong folio. Black cloth-backed wrappers, contemporary upper blue with decorative cut paper label with manuscript titling in ink, original lower light green with publisher's vignette, modern typed title label to spine. 1f. (series title: "Oeuvres Complettes de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" with pictorial vignette by W. Böhm), [i] (title with incipits), 6-122, [iii] (publisher's catalogue: "Auszug aus dem Verzeichnisse musikalischer Werke, im Verlage von Breitkopf und Härtel in Leipzig. Bis zur Michaelis-Messe 1798") pp. Typeset. Printed on paper with a light blue tone. Footer "II" (referring to volume number) printed to first page of each signature. Each set of variations carries the textual incipit (where applicable) as a caption title and "Thema. Ariette [I-XII]" preceding first system. Signature in ink to lower right corner of series title: [?]"H Lampe." Wrappers quite worn, rubbed and bumped; several stains; some cracking and abraision. Occasional worming, including to titles; one miniscule hole extending through p. 32; some soiling, foxing, and offsetting; final leaf laid down to inner lower wrapper.. Volume II of Breitkopf & Härtel's early "complete" edition. Köchel 6 pp. 386, 330-31, 322-23, 494, 311-12, 895, 648, 697, 321-22, 444, 193, 557, and 916. Hoboken 12, 698. Hirsch IV, 987. RISM M7307. The variation sets are based on the following themes: K374c: "Dieu d' amour" from the opera "Les Mariages Samnites" (1776) by Andre Gretry (1741-1813) K315d: Chanson "Lison dormoit" from the "Comedie melee d'ariettes 'Julie' " (1772) by Nicolas Dezede K300f: Anonymous French chanson "La belle Francoise" (before 1760) K455: "Unser dummer Pöbel meint" (originally: "Les hommes pieusement") from the singspiel "Die Pilgrime von Mekka" (originally: "La rencontre imprevue" or "Les Pelerins de Mecque," 1764) by Christoph Willibald Gluck K299a: "Je suis Lindor," incidental romance for the comedy "Le Barbier de Seville" (1775) by Beaumarchais, composed by Antoine- Laurent Baudron KAnhang C 26.02: "Une fievre brulante" from the opera "Richard Coeur-de-lion" (1784) by Andre Gretry K573: A minuet by Jean- Pierre Duport (1741-1818) K613: "Ein Weib ist das herrlichste Ding auf der Welt" from the anonymous comedy "Der dumme Gärtner aus dem Gebürge oder die zween Anton," part 2 ("Die verdeckten Sachen," 1789), probably by Benedikt Schack or Franz Gerl K300e: French children's song "Ah! vous dirai-je maman" (before 1750) K416e: "Salve tu, Domine" from the opera "I filosofi immaginarii" (1779) by Giovanni Paisiello K189a: A minuet from an oboe concerto (ca. 1768) by Johann Christian Fischer (1733-1800) K500: Unknown KAnhang C26.02, the only posthumous work in the present collection, had been published under Mozart's name since 1792, but there is no evidence supporting the ascription. As early as 1799, Constanze Mozart and others denied the authenticity of these variations. Their real composer remains unknown. Of particular interest is the publisher's catalogue included with the present volume. The "Michaelis-Messe" took place on the Feast of St. Michael's Day, September 29, 1798.

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Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount (1678-1751)
        Letters and correspondence : public and private, of the Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Visc. Bolingbroke; during the time he was Secretary of State to Queen Anne; with state papers, explanatory notes ... / by Gilbert Parke [volumes 1 & 2]
      London : printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, 1798, Hardback, Book Condition: Very Good, First EditionVery good copy rebound with the original tree-lined calf boards, and a modern, matching leather spine. Contrasting gilt-blocked leather labels to spines. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. Very impressively finished. Some dulling and rubbing evident to panel edges. Gilt-stamped borders to panels. Minor, scattered marginal foxing. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance: From the library of Sir John Eden Bart. with his armorial bookplate. Further scans, images and additional bibliographical material available on request. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 2 pages; 2v vols. (xi, 693p., 762p.); 30cm. Subjects: English Letters -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- France -- History -- Politics and government -- Early works to 1800. Notes: page x in vol. 1 mislabelled xi. Errata for boths vols. at end of vol. 2,

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MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791
        [K374c (352), 315d (264), 300f (353), 455, 299a (354), Anh. C26.02 (Anh. 285), 573, 613, 300e (265), 416e (398), 189a (179), 500]. Douze ThÃ¨mes variÃ©s pour le pianoforte
      Leipsic: Breitkopf & HÃ¤rtel [without PN]. [1798]. Oblong folio. Black cloth-backed wrappers, contemporary upper blue with decorative cut paper label with manuscript titling in ink, original lower light green with publisher's vignette, modern typed title label to spine. 1f. (series title: "Oeuvres Complettes de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" with pictorial vignette by W. BÃ¶hm), [i] (title with incipits), 6-122, [iii] (publisher's catalogue: "Auszug aus dem Verzeichnisse musikalischer Werke, im Verlage von Breitkopf und HÃ¤rtel in Leipzig. Bis zur Michaelis-Messe 1798") pp. Typeset. Printed on paper with a light blue tone. Footer "II" (referring to volume number) printed to first page of each signature. Each set of variations carries the textual incipit (where applicable) as a caption title and "Thema. Ariette [I-XII]" preceding first system.Signature in ink to lower right corner of series title: [?]"H Lampe."Wrappers quite worn, rubbed and bumped; several stains; some cracking and abraision. Occasional worming, including to titles; one miniscule hole extending through p. 32; some soiling, foxing, and offsetting; final leaf laid down to inner lower wrapper. . Volume II of Breitkopf & HÃ¤rtel's early "complete" edition. KÃ¶chel 6 pp. 386, 330-31, 322-23, 494, 311-12, 895, 648, 697, 321-22, 444, 193, 557, and 916. Hoboken 12, 698. Hirsch IV, 987. RISM M7307.The variation sets are based on the following themes:K374c: "Dieu d' amour" from the opera "Les Mariages Samnites" (1776) by AndrÃ© GrÃ©try (1741-1813)K315d: Chanson "Lison dormoit" from the "ComÃ©die mÃ©lÃ©e d'ariettes 'Julie' " (1772) by Nicolas DezÃ¨deK300f: Anonymous French chanson "La belle Francoise" (before 1760)K455: "Unser dummer PÃ¶bel meint" (originally: "Les hommes pieusement") from the singspiel "Die Pilgrime von Mekka" (originally: "La rencontre imprÃ©vue" or "Les PÃ¨lerins de Mecque," 1764) by Christoph Willibald GluckK299a: "Je suis Lindor," incidental romance for the comedy "Le Barbier de Seville" (1775) by Beaumarchais, composed by Antoine-Laurent BaudronKAnhang C 26.02: "Une fiÃ¨vre brÃ»lante" from the opera "Richard Coeur-de-lion" (1784) by AndrÃ© GrÃ©tryK573: A minuet by Jean-Pierre Duport (1741-1818)K613: "Ein Weib ist das herrlichste Ding auf der Welt" from the anonymous comedy "Der dumme GÃ¤rtner aus dem GebÃ¼rge oder die zween Anton," part 2 ("Die verdeckten Sachen," 1789), probably by Benedikt Schack or Franz GerlK300e: French children's song "Ah! vous dirai-je maman" (before 1750)K416e: "Salve tu, Domine" from the opera "I filosofi immaginarii" (1779) by Giovanni PaisielloK189a: A minuet from an oboe concerto (ca. 1768) by Johann Christian Fischer (1733-1800)K500: UnknownKAnhang C26.02, the only posthumous work in the present collection, had been published under Mozart's name since 1792, but there is no evidence supporting the ascription. As early as 1799, Constanze Mozart and others denied the authenticity of these variations. Their real composer remains unknown.Of particular interest is the publisher's catalogue included with the present volume. The "Michaelis-Messe" took place on the Feast of St. Michael's Day, September 29, 1798.

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Augustin Carrache
        L'Aretin D'Augustin Carrache
      [Paris] - A La Nouvelle Cythere 1798 - A French description of the series of erotic engraved plates, depicting pairs of lovers in different positions of intercourse. Missing the twenty engraved platesby Carrachi, and containing the text only. The plates depict couples and scenes from mythology, including Jupiter and Juno, Anthony and Cleopatra, and Ovid sand Corinne. I Modi (The Ways), also known as The Sixteen Pleasures or under the Latin title De omnibus Veneris Schematibus, is a famous erotic book of the Italian Renaissance in which a series of sexual positions were explicitly depicted in engravings. While the original edition was apparently completely destroyed by the Catholic Church, fragments of a later edition survived. The second edition was accompanied by sonnets written by Pietro Aretino, which described the sexual acts depicted. The original illustrations were probably copied by Agostino Caracci, whose version survives. Condition: In a calf binding with gilt dentelles. Externally, smart, though with some rubbing and marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with just the odd patch of foxing. Overall: VERY GOOD INDEED. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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LA PEROUSE
        VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE (Pendant les annÃ©es 1785-88). PubliÃ© conformÃ©ment au dÃ©cret du 22 avril 1791 et rÃ©digÃ© par M. L.-A. Milet-Mureau.
      Paris, chez Plassan, An VI, 1798. In-16 gr. (mm. 193x115), 4 voll. di testo + Atlante (in folio), p. pelle bazana coeva (abras. e picc. manc.), cornice dorata ai piatti, ricca decoraz. e tit. oro su due tasselli al dorso, pp. (4),LXVIII,368; (4),414; 316,(148); (4),328. L?' Atlante (mm. 440x284), mz. pelle coeva, fregi e tit. oro al dorso su due tasselli, con ritratto dell'A. inc. in rame, è costituito da 70 magnifiche tavv., disegnate e inc. in rame da valenti artisti, cosi' suddivise: 1 bellissima antiporta figurata (su disegno di Moreau le jeune) - 15 grandi carte geografiche (incluso un mappamondo ?"ou carte reduite des parties connues du globe?"), più volte ripieg. - 19 tavv., a doppia pag. o più volte ripieg., che raffigurano "plans et vues" di porti, baie, isole, coste e arcipelaghi - 24 tavv. di vedute, costumi, tipi di imbarcazioni - 11 tavv. di storia naturale (piante, uccelli, molluschi).Relazione del viaggio intorno al mondo, in cui sono trattate anche: astronomia, fisica, chimica, mineralogia, zoologia, botanica e medicina. "Seconda edizione" (la prima è del 1797) di questa importante e celebre opera, che fu tradotta in varie lingue. Cfr. Brunet,III,828 - Graesse,IV,103 - The Hill Collect. of Pacific Voyages,972 per la prima ediz. di ?"one of the most important scientific explorations ever undertaken to the Pacific and the West coast of North America?".Con tracce d?'uso margin.; la tav. del mappamondo con picc. spacchi; solo un vol. di testo con picc. fori di tarlo su ca. 50 cc., ma certamente un buon esemplare. P.a.r. "Jean-Francois de Galaup, Conte di La Pérouse, navigatore francese (1741-1788), ebbe da Luigi XVI il comando di un grande viaggio di circumnavigazione, allo scopo di esplorare le regioni ancora sconosciute del Pacifico. Partito con due navi, su cui erano alcuni scienziati (1785), si portò all'isola di Pasqua, alle Hawaii e quindi lungo le coste dell'Alasca. Nel 1787, toccate le Marianne, Macao e Manila, costeggiò la Manciuria ed esplorò i mari intorno al Giappone settentrionale, spingendosi fino alla Camciatca. Mandò dalla Nuova Olanda le sue ultime notizie in patria e, salpato dalla Baia del Botanico con le due navi, scomparve per sempre (1788). Secondo le tracce scoperte da P. Dillon e da Dumont d'Urville sarebbe naufragato presso l'isola Vanikoro (gruppo S. Croce)". Cosi' Diz. Treccani,VI, p. 691.

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Fenelon, Francois de Salignac de la Motte.
        Die wunderbaren Begebenheiten Telemachs Sohn des Ulysses. Ein Heldengedicht in vier und zwanzig Büchern [.]. Aus dem Französischen auf das neue übersetzt und mit nöthigen Anmerkungen begleitet.,
      Nürnberg-Altdorf, J. C. Monath u. J. F. Kußler, 1798. - Seltene illustrierte Ausgabe dieses häufig aufgelegten Heldengedichtes. - Einband etw. berieben, bestoßen u. fleckig. Rücken etw. später m. Papier überzogen. Ganz vereinzelt min. fleckig. - Nicht bei Rümann. Sprache: ge Gewicht in Gramm: 1000 8°. Mit einer gefalt. Kupferkarte des Mittelmeerraumes, gest. Frontispiz u. 24 Kupfertafeln. XIV, 719 S., Ppbd. d. Zt. m. handschriftl. Rückenschild. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Pallas Peter Simon
        Natuurlyke historie der plant-dieren, bevattende de algemeene schetzen der geslachten en korte beschryvingen der bekende zoorten
      J.B. Elwe, Amsterdam 1798 - Early Dutch edition of Pallas's work on Corals first published in 1767 (and first published in Dutch as Lyst der plant-dieren, 1768. This appears to be an exact republication) It details the discoveries that he made in the Dutch Museum, including several new to science. All editions are uncommon. 1/4 contemporary calf with red morocco spine label . Corners bumped, a little worn, faint dampstain occasionally in top margin, otherwise clean and bright internally with 14 fine hand colored plates of corals. A few slight creases to plates, one plate a little loose, otherwise unusually bright. 654pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Science & Technology; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 042512. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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AKIZATO, Roto ; TAKEHARA, Shunchosai
        SETTSU MEISHO ZUE [ Famous places in Settsu ] Maki 4 / Volume 4 : Osaka
      Yanagiwara Kibe 1798 - Illustrated by TAKEHARA, Shunchosai, 1 vol. 8vo (183 x 255 mm), blue wrappers, Osaka, Yanagiwara Kibei, Kansei 8-10 [ 1796 - 1798 ], 36 ff. [ 36 leaves) First edition. "The Settsu Meisho Zue is a collection of famous views, with commentary, of the province of Settsu". The present volume (or "Maki') is the fourth on twelve volumes of the most comprehensive record of the Settsu Province during the Edo period. This volume contains 27 woodcuts (most of them double-page) about Osaka, including the famous plate reproducing a Dutch delegation (with Hendrik Caspar Romberg) attending a theatre perfomance at Osaka. Good condition (small worm damage on margin, otherwise a very good and fresh copy). Pictures will be sent on demand. Chibbett, Hickman, Matsudaira, "A descriptive Catalogue of the pre-1868 Japanese Books", 201 Langue: Japonais [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

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(WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary ) GODWIN, William
        Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman. By William Godwin
      London: for J. Johnson, and G. G. and J. Robinson,/for J. Johnson,, 1798/1787. [Bound together with] Thoughts on the Education of Daughters: with Reflections on Female Conduct, in The more important Duties of Life. By Mary Wollstonecraft. Two works bound as one, octavo. Contemporary half-calf, spine gilt-ruled in compartments, rebacked with the original spine laid down, marbled sides. Half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece and errata leaf to the first work. Contemporary ink ownership inscription to first blank. Spine and corners somewhat rubbed, slight cracking to hinges but the joints holding fine, mild toning to endpapers offset from turn-ins, faint marginal dampstain to portrait frontispiece, title page faintly offset from frontis, rear free endpaper just loosening at the head, otherwise internally quite fresh and on the whole a very good copy indeed. First editions of two scarce and important Godwin/Wollstonecraft books; William Godwin's memoir of his late wife Mary Wollstonecraft here found together in a contemporary binding with a first edition of Wollstonecraft's first book, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters. Godwin's touching and frank account of his wife's life marks an important step in the development of the art of biography. The details of her sexual liaison with Imlay, the birth of her illegitimate daughter, and her suicide attempts, all scandalised contemporary readers for whom biographies were expected to be glowing accounts of admirable qualities. Godwin, the grieving widower, was determined that the public deserved to know the whole truth about this remarkable woman. Wollstonecraft's first book, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, was based on her own rather brief experience as a teacher. In 1784, at the age of 24 she had opened up her own school for girls at Newington Green, but this failed and she took an appointment, also destined to be short-lived, as governess to the children of the aristocratic Kingsborough family in Ireland. In the midst of these disappointments, however, she was introduced to the publisher of rational dissent, Joseph Johnson, who agreed to publish this, her first book, thus beginning a literary association between the two that long outlasted her career as a juvenile educationalist. Apart from a single contemporary printing in Dublin, by W. Sleater, 1788, the book was not reprinted until 1972, when rising feminist literary discourse co-opted it as a precursor text to her Rights of Woman (1792). First editions of both books are very uncommon, particularly Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, and to have them bound thus together in a near-contemporary binding is highly appealing.

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LAPLACE, Pierre Simon, Marquis de
        Traité de Mécanique Céleste
      Folding engraved plate in Vol. IV. Five vols. Large 4to, cont. polished mottled calf (joints & a few corners carefully repaired), spines nicely gilt, red morocco lettering pieces on spines. Paris: J.B.M. Duprat & others, An VII [1798 First edition and a complete set with all the supplements. In this monumental and fundamental astronomical work, Laplace -- the "Newton of France" -- codified and developed the theories and achievements of Newton, Euler, d'Alembert, and Lagrange. "Laplace maintained that while all planets revolve round the sun their eccentricities and the inclinations of their orbits to each other will always remain small. He also showed that all these irregularities in movements and positions in the heavens were self-correcting, so that the whole solar system appeared to be mechanically stable. He showed that the universe was really a great self-regulating machine and the whole solar system could continue on its existing plan for an immense period of time. This was a long step forward from the Newtonian uncertainties in this respect...Laplace also offered a brilliant explanation of the secular inequalities of the mean motion of the moon about the earth -- a problem which Euler and Lagrange had failed to solve...He also investigated the theory of the tides and calculated from them the mass of the moon."-Printing & the Mind of Man 252. A very nice set. Our set has the first state, with the earlier dates, of the titles of Vols. I and II, all the half-titles, and all the supplements. â§ Dibner, Heralds of Science, 14. D.S.B., XV, pp. 273-403. En Français dans le Texte 201. Horblit 63. Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, pp. 197-98. .

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James Akin; S Allardice; W Barker; Joseph Bowes; Thomas Clarke, et. al
        Encyclopaedia ; Or, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature. 21 Volumes Set with Supplement
      Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas Dobson, 1798-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 21 Volumes. Quarto. 595 of 596 plates present. Bound in full contemporary full leather. Gilt spine. Good bindings and covers. Wear to extremities. Most volumes lacking spine labels. Chipping and loss to head and tail of spines. Boards starting. Front boards detached on Volumes 1, 5, 9, 10 & 18. Plate 365 lacking. Plate 228 loose, but present. In Vol. IX: p 337-344 are misbound. Scattered foxing and toning to pages. Tanned pages. Evans 33676-33693; Sabin 22555. Dobson's Encyclopaedia was the first encyclopedia issued in the newly independent United States of America, published by Thomas Dobson from 1789â€?"1798. The encyclopedia was a reprint of the contemporary third edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (published 1788â€?"1797), although Dobson's Encyclopaedia was a somewhat longer work in which a few articles were edited for a patriotic American audience. Dobson objected to a British bias he perceived in the Britannica, and resolved to re-edit the Britannica accordingly. He completed his Encyclopaedia in April 1798, a year after the original. It had 16,650 pages, with 595 engraved copperplates, slightly more than the Britannica. In support of Dobson's patriotic initiative, President George Washington subscribed to two sets, to help promote Dobsonâ€™s endeavor, as well as Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. In promoting his Encyclopaedia, Dobson conducted an all-out advertising blitz, never before seen in North America, to secure subscriptions; his advertisements appealed strongly to the patriotic pride of Americans and appeared in newspapers, on magazine wrappers, in spare book leaves, and in pamphlets distributed to all the major book-sellers of his day. "From every standpoint the highest achievement in Colonial bookmaking. The whole work, illustrations, type, and paper (and content) shows an achievement of professional craftsmen working together for an enlightened publisher. The first American book on anything like such a scale, Dobson's work marks the end of printing in America as a household craft and the beginning of its (modern) development." Evans 22486. Though Dobson amended and expanded his edition of the 3rd edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, he reprinted the bold article on "Motion", which made the 3rd infamous, in which it erroneously rejected Isaac Newton's theory of gravitation, writing that gravity is caused by the classical element of fire. Pagination of set as follows: Vol I: (2), xiv, 799p., frontis, 31 pl.; Vol. II: (2), 799p, (1), 60 pl. (32-91); Vol. III: (2), 806p, 20pl. (92-111); Vol. IV. (2), 793p, 26 pl. (112-137); Vol. V: (2) 807p, (1), 24 pl. (138-161); Vol. VI: (2), 794p, 22 pl. (162-183); Vol. VII: (2), 797p, (1), 38 pl. (184-221); Vol. VIII: (2), 800p, 18 pl. (222-238); Vol. IX: (2), 800p, 31 pl. (239-269); Vol. X: (2), (2), 788p, (1), 22 pl. (270-291); Vol. XI: (2), 814p, 19 pl. (292-310); Vol. XII: (2), 799p, (1), 35 pl. (311-345); Vol. XIII: (2), 799p, (1) 31 pl. of 32 (346-364, 366-377); Vol. XIV: (2), 797p, (1), 16 pl. (378-393); Vol. XV: (2), 799p, (1), 41 pl. (394-434); Vol. XVI: (2), 799p, (1), 12 pl. (435-346), errata; Vol. XVII: (2), 827p, (1), 37 pl. (447-483); Vol. XVIII: (2), 945p, (2), (1), 59 pl. (484-542); Supplement Vol. I: (2), 704p, 26 pl. (1-26), errata; Supplement Vol. II: (2), 734p, 13 pl. (27-40); Supplement Vol. III: (2), 48p, 566p, iv, 14 pl (41-50, I-III). Of total 595 plates, 5 plates are folding, 2 plates are folding maps, and 14 are plates of maps. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US.

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Schönberg von Brenkenhoff, Leopold
        Paradoxa, grösstentheils militärischen Inhalts.
      Leipzig, August Friedrich Leo, 1798 - Kl.8°, XVL, 292 S., OKart. d. Zeit, goldgepr. Deckel u. Rückenschildchen., Berieben, Kapitale min. lädiert, Titelei min. stockfleckig, sonst in sehr gutem Zustand. Dritte, gänzlich umgearbeitete und sehr vermehrte Auflage. Mit Widmung des Autors: «Seinem verehrungswürdigen und theuren Gönner dem Kgl. General-Maior von Holtzendorff verehrt dieses Exemplar zum Andenken - der Verfaßer."[Seltsamerweise verstarb der Gönner bereits 1785? Also eine posthume Widmung.].Mit handschriftlichen Kopien der Widmungsschreiben von König Friedrich Wilhelm: «Mein lieber Major von Brenkenhoff. Die Gedanken über verschiedene militärische und andere Gegenstände, welche Ihr in Eurem Paradoxon dem Publikum mitteilt, haben Mir eine angenehme Unterhaltung gewährt. Ich bin Euch daherfür die Aufmerksamkeit, mit welcher Ihr Mir dieses Produkt Eures Geistes übersandt habt, verbunden, und versichere Euch, daß Ich dagegen stets seyn werde, Euer wohlaffectionirter König. Potsdam, Friedrich Wilhelmden 11.Mai 1798.»Und der Königin Luise: «Ich kann nicht länger, mein lieber Major von Brenkenhoff, Ihnen für die mirmittelst Schreibens vom 7. dieses Monats übermachte Schrift, die Ihren Kenntnissen und Ihrem Herzen, so vorzügliche Ehre macht, und in welcher ich mit wahremVergnügen gelesen habe, hiermit meinen besonderen Dank abzustatten; die Mittheilung derselben ist mir äußerstangenehm gewesen, da ich solche als einen unverkennbaren Beweiß Ihrer attention anzusehen Ursache habe, so füge ich zu meiner Erkenntlichkeit noch die Versicherung, daß ich unausgesetzt verbleibe Ihre affectionirte Königin Luise. Potsdam den 14. Mai, 1798Leopold Schönberg v. B. (1750 -1799), Sohn des Franz Balth. Schönberg v. Brenkenhoff, war Offizier im sächsischen, dann im preußischen Heer. Das Buch «Paradoxa.» erschin 1780 zum ersten Mal. «Dieses kleine Büchlein ist voll guter und gut gesagter Gedanken, und wir rathen jedem jungen Officier an, sie aufmerksam durchzulesen.» (Allgemeine deutsche Bibliothek, Band 60). 1100 gr. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

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Edward Orme
        Thebet Mountains
      London - The 24 views of India depicted in "Views in Hindoostan" were redrawn and published by Edward Orme. Colonel Ward, a skilled amateur artist and member of the Madras Army, originally drew the sketches that Orme reworked for Views of Hindostan. Richard Chase, the mayor of Madras to whom this publication was dedicated, acquired a number of Wards sketches and passed them onto Orme. At the time of this publication there was a renewed interest in India, as the Fourth Mysore War had recently ended. The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798-1799) was a war in South India between the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company under Lord Wellesley. The war ended with the siege of Seringapatam, the capital of Mysore, and the killing of Tipu Sultan, the rebel leader of Mysore, by the British in 1799. William Orme was a talented landscape painter, who exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1797 and 1819. In addition to Views of Hindostan, Orme was involved in several other publications including J. Walkers The Itinerant (1799), Francis William Blagdons A Brief History of Ancient and Modern India (1806) and F.B. Solvyns The Costumes of Hindostan (1805). Aquatint with hand coloring by watercolor was the most popular technique for works showing the colors and the varied landscapes and architectural sites of India. Orme also issued a beautifully produced group of sporting prints issued in 1814. These vivid prints are based on drawings by popular English artists, such as Samuel Howitt and J.A. Atkinson. The series depict various sporting and hunting scenes from around the world, the Orme sporting prints depicted here are of India. This hand colored engraving is overall in very good condition with dimensions of 23"x16.5". Some foxing and staining along margins.

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        A view of the Kings Barracks, Fort St. George
      London - The 24 views of India depicted in "Views in Hindoostan" were redrawn and published by Edward Orme. Colonel Ward, a skilled amateur artist and member of the Madras Army, originally drew the sketches that Orme reworked for Views of Hindostan. Richard Chase, the mayor of Madras to whom this publication was dedicated, acquired a number of Wards sketches and passed them onto Orme. At the time of this publication there was a renewed interest in India, as the Fourth Mysore War had recently ended. The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798-1799) was a war in South India between the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company under Lord Wellesley. The war ended with the siege of Seringapatam, the capital of Mysore, and the killing of Tipu Sultan, the rebel leader of Mysore, by the British in 1799. William Orme was a talented landscape painter, who exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1797 and 1819. In addition to Views of Hindostan, Orme was involved in several other publications including J. Walkers The Itinerant (1799), Francis William Blagdons A Brief History of Ancient and Modern India (1806) and F.B. Solvyns The Costumes of Hindostan (1805). Aquatint with hand coloring by watercolor was the most popular technique for works showing the colors and the varied landscapes and architectural sites of India. Orme also issued a beautifully produced group of sporting prints issued in 1814. These vivid prints are based on drawings by popular English artists, such as Samuel Howitt and J.A. Atkinson. The series depict various sporting and hunting scenes from around the world, the Orme sporting prints depicted here are of India. This hand colored engraving is overall in very good condition with dimensions of 23"x16.5". Some foxing and staining along margins.

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Edward Orme
        Felicity Hall, Late The Residance of Honorable David Anstruther
      London - The 24 views of India depicted in "Views in Hindoostan" were redrawn and published by Edward Orme. Colonel Ward, a skilled amateur artist and member of the Madras Army, originally drew the sketches that Orme reworked for Views of Hindostan. Richard Chase, the mayor of Madras to whom this publication was dedicated, acquired a number of Wards sketches and passed them onto Orme. At the time of this publication there was a renewed interest in India, as the Fourth Mysore War had recently ended. The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798-1799) was a war in South India between the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company under Lord Wellesley. The war ended with the siege of Seringapatam, the capital of Mysore, and the killing of Tipu Sultan, the rebel leader of Mysore, by the British in 1799. William Orme was a talented landscape painter, who exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1797 and 1819. In addition to Views of Hindostan, Orme was involved in several other publications including J. Walkers The Itinerant (1799), Francis William Blagdons A Brief History of Ancient and Modern India (1806) and F.B. Solvyns The Costumes of Hindostan (1805). Aquatint with hand coloring by watercolor was the most popular technique for works showing the colors and the varied landscapes and architectural sites of India. Orme also issued a beautifully produced group of sporting prints issued in 1814. These vivid prints are based on drawings by popular English artists, such as Samuel Howitt and J.A. Atkinson. The series depict various sporting and hunting scenes from around the world, the Orme sporting prints depicted here are of India. This hand colored engraving is overall in very good condition with dimensions of 23"x16.5". Some foxing and staining along margins.

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Penn (John)
        A Timely Appeal to the Common Sense of the People of Great Britain in general, And of the inhabitants of Buckinghamshire in particular, on the present situation of affairs; with references to the opinions of most of the British and French philosophers of the present century. [bound with:] Further Thoughts on the present state of public opinion; being a continuation of A Timely Appeal .
      Printed for J. Hatchard second work: by W. Bulmer -1800 1798 - 2 works in 1 vol., the first bound without half-title or final advertisement leaf, the whole interleaved, title-page of the second slightly soiled and with a reddish stain in the fore-margin which persists for a few leaves, pp. 120; xii (these pages not interleaved), 185, 8vo (text) and 4to (interleaves), contemporary calf, rebacked, corners worn, with pencil notes on the interleaves, some quite extensive, to the first 42 pages, bookplate of Peter Isaacs, good Grandson of the Founder of Pennsylvania, John Penn (1760-1834), returned to England in 1788, unable to restore the proprietorship of the province of Pennsylvania to the Penn family, although compensated. From a hitherto purely literary dilletantism he now turned to politics. In the year of the Timely Appeal he was appointed sheriff of Buckginghamshire, hence the particularity of the title. Penn addresses himself to 14 heads, including: the unequal distribution of wealth; inequality of rank (Men have equal rights, but are not born equal); the severity of our penal code; disregard of the goodwill expressed for us by the French; the weight of taxes; the distresses of the poor; miniterial influence.At first sight this seems to be an authors copy in preparation for a second edition. But the numerous corrections to style and expression are soon mingled with opinions on the clarity or otherwise of the text, and more general comments on merits and demerits. Clearly then the annotations are the work of a friend-cum-critic. (ESTC T50331 and T111630, BL and Bodley only in the UK)

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SUCKOW, Lorenz Johann Daniel.
        Erste Gründe der bürgerlichen Baukunst in einem Zusammenhange entworfen. Mit XXXV Kupfern. 4. veränd. u. verm. Aufl.
      Jena, W. Stahl 1798.. 4°. Titelbl., 4 nn. Bll. (Vorrede), 332 S., 11 nn. Bll. (Index, Verbesserungen), 19 gef. Taf. mit 35 Kpfr. Halblederband d. Zeit, mit e. goldgeprägten Rückenschild u. goldgeprägten Rückenzierlinien, Einbanddeckel marmoriert, Rücken etw. berieben, Ecken u. Kanten bestoßen, Seiten nur wenig vergilbt u. schwach stockfleckig. Mit je e. Namensz. v. alter Hand am Titelblatt u. am vorderen fliegenden Vorsatzblatt. Breitrandiger Druck.. Poggend. 2,1046. Vgl. GV 142,198. ADB 37,105. Hamberger/M. 3,667f. Cat. of the Avery Memorial Architectural Libr. of Columbia Univ. 17,771 (2. Aufl.) - Schönes Architekturlehrbuch (Erstaufl. 1751) d. Jenaer Professors f. Physik u. Mathematik, S. (1722-1801), d. in einigen Auflagen erschienen ist. Vorliegende 4. Aufl. stellt die umfangreichste u. vollständigste dar.

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Cléry, M. [Hannet, J.B.A.]
        Journal de ce qui s'est passé à la Tour du Temple pendant la captivité de Louis XVI, roi de France
      London: Baylis, Greville-Street, Se vend chez l'auteur, N° 29 Great Pulteney-street, Golden Square, 1798 - Clery was the faithful valet de chambre of Louis XVI during his imprisonment in the Tour du Temple, and thus an intimate witness to the days leading up to 21 January 1793, when Louis XVI was guillotined on the place Royale. An essential document in the history of revolutionary France, here in the first edition, with inserted contemporary engravings First edition of the most important contemporary work on the captivity of Louis XVI. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece of the Temple and engraved plan of the second and third storeys of the Temple, with facsimile plate of two notes by Marie-Antoinette. [2] ff. [half-title and title], [8] ff. [list of subscribers], 239 pp., [1] f. [note]. Bound with six inserted blank leaves after list of subscribers containing three tipped-in contemporary engravings of the Temple tower (Guyot and Henriot). Contemporary calf, rubbed. Joints cracked but holding. Very good. Tourneux, pp. 300-301

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James Akin; S Allardice; W Barker; Joseph Bowes; Thomas Clarke, et. al
        Encyclopaedia ; Or, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature. 21 Volumes Set with Supplement
      Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas Dobson 1798 - 21 Volumes. Quarto. 595 of 596 plates present. Bound in full contemporary full leather. Gilt spine. Good bindings and covers. Wear to extremities. Most volumes lacking spine labels. Chipping and loss to head and tail of spines. Boards starting. Front boards detached on Volumes 1, 5, 9, 10 & 18. Plate 365 lacking. Plate 228 loose, but present. In Vol. IX: p 337-344 are misbound. Scattered foxing and toning to pages. Tanned pages. Evans 33676-33693; Sabin 22555. Dobson's Encyclopaedia was the first encyclopedia issued in the newly independent United States of America, published by Thomas Dobson from 1789?1798. The encyclopedia was a reprint of the contemporary third edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (published 1788?1797), although Dobson's Encyclopaedia was a somewhat longer work in which a few articles were edited for a patriotic American audience. Dobson objected to a British bias he perceived in the Britannica, and resolved to re-edit the Britannica accordingly. He completed his Encyclopaedia in April 1798, a year after the original. It had 16,650 pages, with 595 engraved copperplates, slightly more than the Britannica. In support of Dobson's patriotic initiative, President George Washington subscribed to two sets, to help promote Dobson?s endeavor, as well as Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. In promoting his Encyclopaedia, Dobson conducted an all-out advertising blitz, never before seen in North America, to secure subscriptions; his advertisements appealed strongly to the patriotic pride of Americans and appeared in newspapers, on magazine wrappers, in spare book leaves, and in pamphlets distributed to all the major book-sellers of his day. "From every standpoint the highest achievement in Colonial bookmaking. The whole work, illustrations, type, and paper (and content) shows an achievement of professional craftsmen working together for an enlightened publisher. The first American book on anything like such a scale, Dobson's work marks the end of printing in America as a household craft and the beginning of its (modern) development." Evans 22486. Though Dobson amended and expanded his edition of the 3rd edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, he reprinted the bold article on "Motion", which made the 3rd infamous, in which it erroneously rejected Isaac Newton's theory of gravitation, writing that gravity is caused by the classical element of fire. Pagination of set as follows: Vol I: (2), xiv, 799p., frontis, 31 pl.; Vol. II: (2), 799p, (1), 60 pl. (32-91); Vol. III: (2), 806p, 20pl. (92-111); Vol. IV. (2), 793p, 26 pl. (112-137); Vol. V: (2) 807p, (1), 24 pl. (138-161); Vol. VI: (2), 794p, 22 pl. (162-183); Vol. VII: (2), 797p, (1), 38 pl. (184-221); Vol. VIII: (2), 800p, 18 pl. (222-238); Vol. IX: (2), 800p, 31 pl. (239-269); Vol. X: (2), (2), 788p, (1), 22 pl. (270-291); Vol. XI: (2), 814p, 19 pl. (292-310); Vol. XII: (2), 799p, (1), 35 pl. (311-345); Vol. XIII: (2), 799p, (1) 31 pl. of 32 (346-364, 366-377); Vol. XIV: (2), 797p, (1), 16 pl. (378-393); Vol. XV: (2), 799p, (1), 41 pl. (394-434); Vol. XVI: (2), 799p, (1), 12 pl. (435-346), errata; Vol. XVII: (2), 827p, (1), 37 pl. (447-483); Vol. XVIII: (2), 945p, (2), (1), 59 pl. (484-542); Supplement Vol. I: (2), 704p, 26 pl. (1-26), errata; Supplement Vol. II: (2), 734p, 13 pl. (27-40); Supplement Vol. III: (2), 48p, 566p, iv, 14 pl (41-50, I-III). Of total 595 plates, 5 plates are folding, 2 plates are folding maps, and 14 are plates of maps. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Guillaume De L'Isle (1675-1726)
        L'Amerique Septentrionale
      Pierre Schenk 1798 - Guillaume De L'Isle (1675-1726) L'Amerique Septentrionale Amsterdam: Pierre Schenk, 1798 Hand-colored copperplate engraving 31 ½" x 36" framed Guillaume de L Isle was the leading French cartographer of the early 18th century. He was known for both his strong belief in the importance of accuracy, as well as his prolific output of over 100 maps during his lifetime. Guillaume de LIsle was born into a family of French cartographers, and was the pupil of mathematician and astronomer Jean Dominique Cassini. It is said that de LIsle drew his first map at the age of nine. His first atlas, which he published at the age of 25, made an unprecedented effort to both correct fallacies of earlier maps, such as the depiction of California as an Island, and to add current data to maps. DeIsle was elected to the French Academie Royale des Sciences at the age of 27 and was later appointed to the highest honor as Premier Geographe du Roi (1718). His critical approach to the maps of his predecessors, backed by his training under J. D. Cassini, earned him recognition as the first scientific cartographer and the foremost geographer of his age. De LIsle was one of the first cartographers to accurately show, in this map of North America originally published in 1700, the peninsular formation of California. Many of de LIsles maps were revised and republished into the 18th century. This later version released in the 1798 by the Amsterdam map publisher Pierre Schenk.

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Chaucer, Geoffrey (d.1400). Tyrwhitt, Thomas (1730-1786)
        The Canterbury tales of Chaucer. To which are added an essay on his language and versification, and an introductory discourse: together with notes and a glossary. By the late Thomas Tyrwhitt, Esq. F.R.S. - [Complete in 2 volumes]
      Oxford : at the Clarendon Press, MDCCXCVIII, 1798, Hardback, Book Condition: Very Good, Second EditionVery good copies both in the original, full contemporary gilt-blocked burgundy Morocco. Raised bands with the titles blocked direct in gilt. Minor, generalized wear and toning to the spine bands and panel edges. An uncommonly good example - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Physical desc.: 2 v.,plate : port. ; (4to). Referenced by: Alston III.40. English Short Title Catalog, T75508. Subject: Songs, English - 17th century.

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